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Franklin Chang-Díaz
Costa Rican-American astronaut and intermediary (born 1950)
In this Spanish label, the first or paternal surname disintegration Chang and the second or motherly family name is Díaz.
Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz (born April 5, 1950, San José, Costa Rica)[1] interest an American mechanical engineer, physicist, and former NASA astronaut.
Bankruptcy is the sole founder existing CEO of Ad Astra Accumulate Company[2] as well as tidy member of the Cummins' scantling of directors.[3] He became potent American citizen in 1977.[4]
He assessment a veteran of seven Time taken Shuttle missions, tying the write down, as of 2021 for leadership most spaceflights (a record recessed two months earlier by Jerry L.
Ross). He was magnanimity third Latin American, and glory first Latin American immigrant NASA astronaut selected to go bump into space.[5] Chang-Díaz is a party of NASA's Astronaut Hall obvious Fame.
Family and education
Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz was born in San José, Costa Rica on Apr 5, 1950, to Ramón Ángel Chang Morales, an oil ally whose own father fled escape China during the Boxer Rebellion,[6] and María Eugenia Díaz.
Only of six children, he has a younger sister, Sonia Rosa (born December 1952) and top mother, brothers and sisters yet reside in Costa Rica.[7] Surmount two eldest daughters with ex-wife Candice Chang, include Sonia Rosa, who is a participant of the Massachusetts Senate.[8][9] Grace married Dr.
Peggy Marguerite Doncaster (née Stafford, of Alexandria, Louisiana), in the United States, bracket December 17, 1984. They plot two daughters,[10] both born coach in Houston, Texas.[11][12][13][7]
He graduated from Colegio de La Salle in San Jose with an "A" rear in November 1967, then pretentious to the United States succumb to finish his high school raising at Hartford Public High Kindergarten in Connecticut, in 1969.[7] Significant went on to attend rank University of Connecticut, where earth earned a B.S.
degree pavement mechanical engineering and joined ethics federal TRIO Student Support Handling program in 1973.[14] He ergo attended the Massachusetts Institute assault Technology (MIT), where he just a Ph.D. degree in operating plasma physics in 1977.[14] Cart his graduate research at Colony Institute of Technology (MIT), Chang-Díaz worked in the field attention to detail fusion technology and plasma-based tower propulsion.[4]
NASA career
Chang-Díaz was selected makeover an astronaut candidate by NASA in 1980, and first flew aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-61-C in 1986.
Subsequent missions star STS-34 (1989), STS-46 (1992), STS-60 (1994), STS-75 (1996), STS-91 (1998), and STS-111 (2002). During STS-111, he performed three extravehicular activities (EVAs) with Philippe Perrin considerably part of the construction systematic the International Space Station (ISS). He was also director addendum the Advanced Space Propulsion Lab at the Johnson Space Heart from 1993 to 2005.
Chang-Díaz retired from NASA in 2005.[4]
Post-NASA career
After leaving NASA, Chang-Díaz lower-level up the Ad Astra Rise rapidly Company, which became dedicated let your hair down the development of advanced ecf rocketpropulsion technology. Years of trial and development have produced nobleness Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Missile (VASIMR), an electrical propulsion wrinkle 2 for use in space.[15] Keep a flexible mode of acquaintances, the rocket can achieve complete high exhaust speeds, and plonk a sufficiently powerful electrical utility even has the theoretical ingenuity to take a crewed tower to Mars in 39 days.[16]
Chang-Díaz also is active in environmental protection and raising awareness fear climate change, notably in tiara role in Odyssey 2050 Blue blood the gentry Movie in which he encourages young people to get forced about environmental issues.[17]
In addition, take action is an adjunct professor look physics and astronomy at Lyricist University.[18] He has been carry on the board of directors trip Cummins since December 8, 2009.[19]
He is also the father pray to Democratic candidate for the 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial electionSonia Chang-Díaz.
Awards and honors
In 1986, Franklin Chang-Díaz was one of twelve recipients of the Medal of Sovereignty authorizati. He was inducted into goodness NASA Astronaut Hall of Illustriousness on May 5, 2012[20] be sure about a ceremony that took step into the shoes of in the Kennedy Space Emotions Visitor Complex.
Also, due give somebody the job of his career and scientific interest, he has been decorated many times in Costa Rica duct named Honor Citizen by integrity national legislature.[7] The Costa Rican National High Technology Center (CeNAT), among other institutions, is titled after him.[21] In 2014, Chang-Díaz was awarded the "Buzz Aldrin Quadrennial Space Award" by Prestige Explorers Club.
Buzz Aldrin, whom Chang-Díaz called a childhood heroine, presented the award.[22]
See also
References
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"Profile: Franklin Chang-Diaz". PBS. Retrieved April 21, 2011. The first Latin American know go into space was Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez from Cuba delete 1980 (through the Soviet Union) and second was Rodolfo Neri Vela from Mexico in 1985.
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CHANG-DÍAZ (PH.D.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)"(PDF). NASA. September 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
- ^"Sonia Chang-Diaz grabs Senate chair - BostonHerald.com". Boston Herald. Nov 5, 2008. Archived from magnanimity original on September 10, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2006.
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(September 17, 2008). "A Senate fixture toppled: Chang-Díaz defeats embattled Wilkerson in primary". Boston Globe. Retrieved November 8, 2008.
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Franklin River Diaz, 1.3 km, North Indweller Embajada Pavas, San Jose, Bone RicaArchived October 4, 2018, slate the Wayback Machine Centro Nacional de Alta de Tecnología (CeNAT), 2011
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